HAMLET, ROMEO AND JULIET, ETC.....................................
2007-04-17 05:13:35 · 11 answers · asked by SOAPGIRL22 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
The most famous play is undoubtedly Hamlet. It's been translated into nearly every language (including Klingon).
As for my favorite... I've got a soft spot for Much Ado About Nothing. It's not his best play, but it's the only comedy that's actually funny just from the text. (Midsummer is also hilarious, but mostly from the physical comedy that you add around the text, not the text itself.) Other plays are more powerful, but Much Ado is the most fun.
2007-04-17 05:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by jfengel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet
2007-04-17 12:20:32 · answer #2 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe to my knowledge, that Romeo and Juliet is the greatest Shakespeare play...it truly is a haunting romance.
my fave...i don't know a lot but out of the ones i do know i like a midsummer's night dream.
2007-04-17 12:35:48 · answer #3 · answered by rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel it has to be, 'Romeo and Juliet'. It's a house hold word and many who do know he wrote have no clue what else he wrote.
Hamlet would probably be the most famous amongst academics and theater goers.
Personally I like 'Taming of the Shrew'. From the standpoint of choreography I like the Tempest.
2007-04-17 12:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by Caretaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet
The name Romeo has even become part of the language to mean a hopeless romantic, and the story itself has been retold and revisited hundres of times, much more than any of his other works.
My personal favorite is Richard III...such a great villian and the work is a great morality play.
2007-04-17 14:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by David Wolf Perez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Midsummer's Night Dream is the best. My favorite lines are:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged cupid painted blind.
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
For this their jampering I esteem a sport.
Their navery is to make an *** of me
2007-04-18 23:53:14 · answer #6 · answered by lonestargirl1144 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hamlet. Queen Gertrude is an awesome part. She goes from being innocent to her son going insane and then telling her that her current husband killed her first husband, then getting killed herself.
Plus it's easier to understand and not boring like Julius Caesar.
2007-04-17 18:10:45 · answer #7 · answered by LadyMacb29 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite is "Twelfth Night." I love all the depth there is to all the characters, and the plot is very good.
Although I am generally opposed to modern revisions of Shakespeare plays, the "Twelfth Night" with Parminder Nagra was just delightful. I especially loved how seamlessly they used an Anglo/Indian cast.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364717/
2007-04-17 15:48:28 · answer #8 · answered by Liath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know what the most famous one was, but my favortite play is We Will Rock You, The Sound of Music, or The Producers. Oh and of course Annie.
2007-04-17 14:42:45 · answer #9 · answered by Hallie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best play according to me is
The Merchant of Venice and King Lear
strong plays and a much maturer work by Shakespeare if u compare all his plays.obviously then there is henry series and anthony and cleopatra
2007-04-21 04:34:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋